On The Grind is a short documentary about kids of color growing up in Long Beach, California who escape their harsh realities through skateboarding. The film was predominantly shot at 14th Street Skate Park, also known as Ghetto Park, a run down facility that local Long Beach skaters treated as a sanctuary. The film explores their lives in the aftermath of losing their close friend, Michael K Green; a talented skateboarder who was in transition to becoming a professional skateboarder. …
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It was black, punk and from Detroit, Michigan. It was Death. Three brothers, Bobby, David, and Dannis Hackney formed a garage band and created music that predated when punk was supposedly invented. It was the early 70’s, and while people were sweating it out in discos and Motown was dominating the charts, these three brothers were pioneering punk. The first time I heard of them was when I saw the trailer for the documentary, A Band Called Death (Drafthouse Films). It was literally, …
Rhode Island rapper and slam poet Sage Francis is a veteran and long time independent artist. He established his own label Strange Famous Records and hasn’t looked back. If anyone can say that they walked a tight rope into the darkness and lived to tell about it, it’d be this guy. The visual for his single “Blue” is off his mixtape Sick to D(eat)h, released December 12th of last year. In the video, the camera follows a soldier suffering from …
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